The Tail & the Dog: Agency and Structure Influences on the Development of an E-commerce Information System in a New Venture Startup

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 24-37

  Chiasson, Mike W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic Commerce; Information Systems Development; New Venture Startups; Structuration Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745250931     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/590806.590811     Document Type: Article

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